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Karador, Ghost Chieftain EDH Commander Deck

This Karador, Ghost Chieftain EDH deck build is very centered around creatures and graveyard play. I know they say “don’t put all of your eggs into one basket” with graveyard play but there are many dredge, mill, and discard cards to keep your graveyard consistently big. This Karador deck build was designed around just using cards and combos that play very well with each other.

This deck uses many sac outlets like Sadistic Hypnotist to take advantage of abilities like Reveillark’s, False Prophet, and Yosei, the Morning Star. You can thing bring many of these creatures back with cards like Loyal Retainers, Sheoldred, Whispering One, and of course Karador.

There are several combinations in this deck like Woodfall Primus, Mikaeus, the Unhallowed, and Sadistic Hypnotist. As well as infinite combos with Reveillark, Karmic Guide, and Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter to make a really big creature.

Overall this is a really fun deck to play and has become a favorite for me. Since the deck is very heavy creature oriented its very easy to play from the graveyard. Another great part about having the Karador EDH deck creature oriented is being able to use cards like Primal Surge and being able to play a fifth of your deck in one turn.

I find that this deck works better 1 vs 1 then multiplayer but it is still very fun to play!

I had life from the loam in the deck for a while but I took it out because I did not use it much and it was not really adding to the deck the way some of the other cards do. Bazaar of Baghdad is good but like you said a little out of my price range!

I think you could trim some fat. I run Karador myself and I would never put in the likes of necrotic sliver, Sisters of stone death, bloodghast (you can bring it back but… that’s it), mesmeric orb, or puppeteer clique. Instead I’d put in Ashen rider, craterhoof behemoth, debtor’s knell, Reya Dawnbringer, and/or angel of serenity.

Thanks I actually removed a few of those already. I just haven’t gotten around to updating the list. Although I like mesmeric orb it does a great job of keeping cards in my graveyard and messes up my opponents play strategy a little too. Updating now.

Hi, first time poster but long time lurker here. Thought I’d give my 2 cents on my favorite general. I built my Karador as a value/toolbox deck. I love to flash in a restoration angel to get more value off ETB critters or a Elesh-norn via winding canyons to wipe Avenger of Zendikar tokens or recasting all my utility creatures from the yard and getting a lot of value via Karametra, God of Harvests. Jarad’s orders grabs loyal retainer & vorinclex/iona/elesh-norn/kokusho/yosei.

Deck Building Guide

EDH Commander Deck Building Guide

1. If you do not know the rules for EDH already then make sure you learn them before creating your deck. Click here for EDH Rules.

2. When first building your EDH Deck determining your EDH General helps determine your strategy and what colors you use. Check out the EDH Generals List for ideas.

3. After select your General and know what colors you are using in your EDH Deck you will find that some Magic Cards will work well in most EDH decks with the same colors. Check out the list of EDH Staples.

4. If you are having trouble determining what deck strategy to use for your EDH Deck try looking at other deck with the same EDH General this will also give you an idea of what cards you can use. I suggest checking out http://tappedout.net/ to check out different decks.

5. Also when building an EDH deck many strategies revolve around specific abilities or creature types. The best way to find all the alternatives for these types and abilities is to do some research at http://gatherer.wizards.com/ and use the search function to your advantage.

6. When you are using a Multicolored deck you need to make sure you have a good variation of lands that produce different color mana. Check out some multi colored producing lands.(If you have a monocolored Commander you can skip checking out the multicolored producing lands of course)

7. After you find multicolored producing lands to make sure your mana base is sufficient check out lands that will support your deck strategy.

8.Test your new EDH deck out with your friends to best decide what your deck needs.